--- title: "Justin Chau (@chau) | Hashnode" description: "Self-Taught Developer Documenting My Journey Daily! Read the latest articles by Justin Chau on Hashnode." url: "https://hashnode.com/@chau" --- @chau # Justin Chau @chau · San Jose, CA · Joined October 2020 Self-Taught Developer Documenting My Journey Daily! ### [DevRel Is Harder Than You Think](https://chau.hashnode.dev/devrel-is-harder-than-you-think?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) DevRel isn't as easy as you think.. "Well Justin all you're doing is making videos and talking about the product! How hard could that be?". Harder than you think actually. There is so much more work that goes on behind the scenes that people need to ... 4 min read · [chau.hashnode.dev](https://chau.hashnode.dev/devrel-is-harder-than-you-think?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) [2](https://hashnode.com/posts/devrel-is-harder-than-you-think/63706d9bcb7084b91cec2ee5) [Nov 13, 2022](https://hashnode.com/posts/devrel-is-harder-than-you-think/63706d9bcb7084b91cec2ee5) ### [Content Creation is an Art](https://chau.hashnode.dev/content-creation-is-an-art?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) Naturally working at Airbyte, I'm going to look and think of Fivetran in a certain way. They are our direct competitors in terms of ELT tooling so we want to be better. When Benn Stancil, Chief Analytics Officer at Mode wrote his article titled How F... 2 min read · [chau.hashnode.dev](https://chau.hashnode.dev/content-creation-is-an-art?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) [Nov 8, 2022](https://hashnode.com/posts/content-creation-is-an-art/6369b0281ea89de4b9fa3f57) ### [Working With JSON Objects Using SQL](https://chau.hashnode.dev/working-with-json-objects-using-sql?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) Recently, I have been teaching myself SQL to complete a project I have and one of the biggest problems I ran into was dealing with JSON objects in our companies data warehouse. I had no idea how to access the specific key pair values in the object, l... 3 min read · [chau.hashnode.dev](https://chau.hashnode.dev/working-with-json-objects-using-sql?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) [Jun 7, 2022](https://hashnode.com/posts/working-with-json-objects-using-sql/629fc3f77c63506288937afb) ### [The Best Way To Learn on the Job](https://chau.hashnode.dev/the-best-way-to-learn-on-the-job?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) I've been in the industry now for 2 years after getting my first job as a Developer Support Engineer at Plaid. I never knew what to expect but I knew that I still had a lot to learn. As a self-taught developer, there are naturally some gaps in my kno... 3 min read · [chau.hashnode.dev](https://chau.hashnode.dev/the-best-way-to-learn-on-the-job?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) [2](https://hashnode.com/posts/the-best-way-to-learn-on-the-job/629a9ff070302328c80b6425) [Jun 3, 2022](https://hashnode.com/posts/the-best-way-to-learn-on-the-job/629a9ff070302328c80b6425) ### [The One Thing You Should Prioritize As A Developer](https://chau.hashnode.dev/the-one-thing-you-should-prioritize-as-a-developer?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) After talking with so many different developers and listening to their experiences, there is one thing that I learned to really focus on. It is something that we often overlook and never really pay attention to it until we reach the tipping point. Th... 2 min read · [chau.hashnode.dev](https://chau.hashnode.dev/the-one-thing-you-should-prioritize-as-a-developer?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) [2](https://hashnode.com/posts/the-one-thing-you-should-prioritize-as-a-developer/5f958e6f40346172a86c2670) [Oct 25, 2020](https://hashnode.com/posts/the-one-thing-you-should-prioritize-as-a-developer/5f958e6f40346172a86c2670)